sahne (for 3 recorders and cassette) 2009
aufgeführt von/performed by:
TRIO KAZE, 2012 Köln
About the piece "sahne, sahne" (electronic version of the piece “sahne”
Originally, the piece was ment to be for three panflutes and a cassette-recorder, imitating the setup of so called "indio-groups" who perform in shopping-malls etc..
This idea seemed then to be too concrete to me so that I decided to recompose it for three loudspeakers with stereo-tape. The three loudspeakers are used as instruments (in a partly counterpoint-manner) and have therefore no artificial (elecctro-acoustical) room in itself but are speakers as instruments in a room. The sound occurs to be flat, but in the ensemble we have a concrete relation to the concrete room, where the piece takes place. In the hall, the stereo-tape would be played by the two frontspeakers, while the three soloist-speakers are on the left and right to the audience and one in the rear.
I also used a "flat" midi-triggered sound for the three soloists to keep the concept on different levels. The form itself was held rather simple: while the tape starts with very concrete material (cassette-recorder sounds and later quotations from panflute music) which gets more and more distorted and transformed towards the end. The three speakers start with a soundscape-texture and get more and more concrete in the sense of being instruments that play written music in a 5-line system.
"sahne" means cream and is, in the title, partly a trap but is also meant in the sense of cream i.e. on a cake: it seems to be the crown of the whole dish but as a single object it is rather disgusting. in society, to me, this is a superficial kind of culture, like the pseudo-indian music-groups but is also questioning the piece itself about its staying-on-the-surface and decadency.
The third interpretation of cream would be the range of possibilites, how cream can appear: whipped, liquid, in desert and main dishes, soups, sauce as well as in cocktails.